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Bureau Freedmen &c
Selma Oct 14th 1865

C. Cadle Jr.
Bvt. Col. A.A.G.

Colonel, I have the honor to forward the enclosed document with my report upon it.

The appellant had called upon me several times before, in regard to negroes, stating a very plausible case, by which statements he endeavored to persuade me to compel them to go with him to his place on the Tombigbee river, some miles below Demopolis. Still earlier he had some conversation with me in regard to a servant at his house. From a careful examination of all these, and from his habitual tone and bearing with regard to Freedmen, I was compelled to distrust him. His servants had a dread of him, and regarded his scheme to get them back upon his isolated plantation as their consignment to a terrible fate. They denied his plausible representatives in regard to themselves, and made it very plain to